Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

Hosted by Williams Collection of Lincolniana archivist Kaelynn Edmondson and Susannah J. Ural, the Frank and Virginia ...

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army ...